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by philipov 5y ago
> Astronomy is just filled with rabbit holes I guess. No wonder some cultures think Rabbits live on the moon.
842.
by philipov 5y ago
The part where they stop selling cards will sure go completely unnoticed by everyone and not draw any scrutiny at all.
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by philipov 5y ago
Isn't the teaching of Buddhism that one should learn to let go of attachments such as love, because they will bring you pain?
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by philipov 5y ago
What prevents a repeat of the Articles of Confederation? It was supposed to be exactly this kind of setup, but the federal government didn't have any authority to enforce the states providing funds, and the states tried to avoid their
845.
by philipov 5y ago
So.... you're saying Anarchists really just want to have Athenian Democracy? Direct democracy might work well for a city state where even poor citizens are independent land owners, but I'm not convinced it would work for a large n
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by philipov 5y ago
It took me a while to parse that headline. It reminds me of the Me Saw Who meme from Among Us, which should be a lesson to everyone not to name yourself after a pronoun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g09LWh5ZsI
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by philipov 5y ago
Yes, as long as your use-case only includes driving straight forward, the MVP is fine. Supporting non-4/4 time is such a fundamental change that not being to turn is a good analogy. The rule of thumb is that you need to design to suppo
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by philipov 5y ago
Stoicism is the philosophy of aristocrats and emperors. Marcus Aurelius could afford to deride money in a way a middle class person can not.
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by philipov 5y ago
This is also why streaming like twitch is so effective as background noise. I can put on a streamer in the background and unlike a podcast, not feel the need to pay attention to what's going on at all.
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by philipov 5y ago
The thing that offshored dev teams are not good at is working directly with clients. There is a need for technical people who are able to talk to clients and can convert those discussions into requirements for dev teams that may be working
851.
by philipov 5y ago
Tsk, tsk. Not a single mention of Roger Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology
852.
by philipov 5y ago
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal loaves of bread." - Anatole France
853.
by philipov 5y ago
Oh, good thing I have address bar suggestions disabled
854.
by philipov 5y ago
What a coincidence. I just spent all day playing Factorio.
855.
by philipov 5y ago
You speak of Hanlon's Razor. There is a corollary called Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"
856.
by philipov 5y ago
Communication is not programming; every statement is not intended to be taken completely literally. When someone says "species go extinct" there is the subtext "... due to humans destroying their ecosystem." It is not ne
857.
by philipov 5y ago
Youtube is where I notice it, and where I want it to stop autoplaying the most. "It doesn't autoplay, except all the places you want it to not autoplay" isn't what I'd call "The same"
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by philipov 5y ago
The nuisances are minor. They're enough that if you're just thinking of switching, you might notice them and not do it. But after a while, you forget about them. I couldn't tell you what they were anymore. And there are advan
859.
by philipov 5y ago
It did for me. I went back to firefox a year ago.
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by philipov 5y ago
> But they make no sense at all for durable goods that can last for years without significant upgrades, like cars. Which is why there is a war on durable goods, such as trying to develop viable cloud gaming to replace people's gam
861.
by philipov 5y ago
Fascinating, I didn't know Guam was a hub for cable intersections in the pacific ocean.
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by philipov 5y ago
Tractatus was written when Wittgenstein was still suffering from the "disease" of philosophy. When he still pursued the positivist program of reducing all reality to logical statements. It was after he had left philosophy for a bi
863.
by philipov 5y ago
Not elected leaders in general, just elected leaders in our specific ecosystem of incentives for those leaders. For them to be acting irrationally, it would be necessary to show that genuinely solving problems is what they're trying to
864.
by philipov 5y ago
Rational behavior from a politician means doing whatever it takes to get yourself reelected. First, foremost, full stop. People who don't do this don't get elected and are removed from the system. Whether their legislation is effe
865.
by philipov 5y ago
Please don't use "rational" to mean "agrees with the axioms I've chosen to be important." These people are acting rationally, but reason doesn't govern what you value in your starting assumptions, only the
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by philipov 5y ago
That view of things denies the possibility that people would have found alternative solutions to problems if the abusive solution didn't exist. In a word, it's short-sighted. Competition tends to drive otherwise viable strategies
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by philipov 5y ago
My favorite is the Revolutions of 1848, because it's a non-linear narrative covering many separate revolutions that all occurred at once.
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by philipov 5y ago
Yes, I think a coup implies that it was perpetrated by people already in government, such as the military, or an opposition party. A riot by the populace that aims to violently remove or influence the government is more properly called an i
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by philipov 5y ago
Thanks, I try not to follow the news too closely because I think that's healthier.
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by philipov 5y ago
which country?

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